U.S. recruiting effort hits obstacles in Iraq
The U.S. effort to organize nearly 70,000 local fighters to solidify security gains in Iraq is facing severe political and logistical challenges as U.S.-led forces struggle to manage the recruits...
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Iraqis, U.S. aren’t sure what’s next
From store clerks selling cigarettes by generator power, to military commanders poring over aerial maps, Iraqis and Americans are striving to understand the sharp decrease in violence over the past...
Iraq hotel blast kills Sunni foes of Al Qaeda
Five bombings struck Iraq on Monday, killing at least 54 people, including 12 who died in a suicide attack at a Baghdad hotel frequented by members of Iraq's parliament and...
GIs take the fight to Iraq insurgents
Fourteen U.S. soldiers and Marines have been killed in the latest three days of fighting in Iraq, the military announced Thursday, as American forces pressed their new security crackdown on...
Iraq OKs draft on sharing oil
Iraq's Cabinet approved draft legislation Monday that would enable the government to manage the country's vast oil resources and distribute revenue throughout the nation, a step toward meeting a U.S....
Iraqi, U.S. forces pound insurgents in Baghdad
With F-15 fighter jets and Apache helicopter gunships providing cover, U.S. and Iraqi troops Tuesday battled hundreds of Sunni Arab insurgents firing from apartment buildings and houses in downtown Baghdad...
Amish bury attack victims
The train of wagons passed through town three times on the same grim errand. And still they were not done burying the girls. The funeral processions for four of the...
A sad milestone at West Point
They remember Emily Perez in her many bursts of motion: the diminutive young woman calling out orders to the freshman cadets on the castled military campus of West Point. They...
More Iraqis seized in Baghdad
With at least three of his colleagues already in handcuffs Monday, the director of the Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry wanted to know one thing from his camouflaged kidnappers:...
Sunni, Shiite mosques are attacked in Iraq
Worshipers attending prayer services were the targets of bomb and mortar attacks Friday in the latest examples of the sectarian violence that has destabilized Iraq and left dozens of people...